HIST277 Lecture Notes - Great Fear, Hobbit, Urban Sprawl
23 Sep 2013
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Change in the way people look at crime and criminals. Ideas change because - 19th century: urbanization and industrialization. Over the course of the 19th century. Canada - urbanization - growth in the size of the population - become from rural to urban areas - industrialization - more people are working at the service sectors for higher wages than being farmers. U comes before i because of high rates of immigration. People come from british isles into british north america happens between. These people land up in port towns where they landed. A lot of infrastructure development - canals, railway (toronto, hamilton, Quebec), improve water systems, huge timber industry in canada at that time. Large infrastructure - docks, buildings, railway development in first half of. 1800s which needs employees and they may need money. Another source of employment before industrial revolution is resources - timber, wood.
